Publications

Filter Publications

Report
May 2000

Food Security and Hunger in Poor, Mother-Headed Families in Four U.S. Cities

Report
March 2000

Encouraging Work, Reducing Poverty

The Impact of Work Incentive Programs

Report
March 2000

San Francisco Works

Toward an Employer-Led Approach to Welfare Reform and Workforce Development

Report
February 2000

Implementation and Early Impacts of Jobs First, Connecticut's Welfare Reform Initiative

Report
February 2000

Career Academies: Impacts on Student Engagement and Performance in High School

Report
January 2000

Stepping Up to the Challenge

Case Studies of Educational Improvement and Title I in Secondary Schools

Report
January 2000

The Responsible Fatherhood Curriculum

Developed as part of MDRC’s Parents’ Fair Share Demonstration, the Responsible Fatherhood Curriculum is intended to help fathers more effectively fulfill their roles as parents, partners, and workers.

Methodological Publication
January 2000

The Politics of Random Assignment

Implementing Studies and Impacting Policy

Methodological Publication
October 1999

Building a Convincing Test of a Public Housing Employment Program Using Non-Experimental Methods

Planning for the Jobs-Plus Demonstration

Report
September 1999

Promoting Participation

How to Increase Involvement in Welfare-to-Work Activities

Report
September 1999

Mobilizing Public Housing Communities for Work

Origins and Early Accomplishments of the Jobs-Plus Demonstration

Report
September 1999

WRP

Forty-Two Month Impacts of Vermont's Welfare Restructuring Project

Methodological Publication
August 1999

Using Cluster Random Assignment to Measure Program Impacts

Statistical Implications for the Evaluation of Education Programs

Methodological Publication
August 1999

Estimating Program Impacts on Student Achievement Using "Short" Interrupted Time Series

Report
July 1999

First-Year Findings from the Los Angeles Jobs-First GAIN Evaluation

Report
May 1999

When Financial Incentives Pay for Themselves

Early Findings from the Self-Sufficiency Project's Applicant Study

Report
May 1999

Career Academies: Employer Partnerships

Report
May 1999

Does SSP Plus Increase Employment

The Effect of Adding Services to the Self-Sufficiency Project’s Financial Incentives